Engaging Learners with Their Own Ideas: An Interview with Eleanor Duckworth.

Duckworth, Eleanor

Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, v4 n1 p28-30 Win 1999

Eleanor Duckworth, professor of education and former student and colleague of Jean Piaget, discusses her theories of teaching and learning and some of her own learning experiences as a teacher. Author of "The Having of Wonderful Ideas," she grounds her work in Piaget's theories of intelligence, trying to engage learners with their own ideas. (CDS)